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HOUSTON — A state district judge has appointed Houston lawyer Richard Mithoff to the executive team of lawyers who will lead all Texas consolidated state court cases involving the General Motors Ignition Switch litigation.

State district Judge Robert Schaffer of the 152^nd District Court in Harris County appointed the plaintiff’s team of five lawyers, which included Mithoff, Bob Hilliard, Mark Lanier, Jeff Wiggington and Scott West. Hilliard and Lanier were appointed co-lead counsel.

All pretrial proceedings in the product liability cases filed against GM in state court throughout Texas have been consolidated by the Texas Supreme Court to be heard before Judge Schaffer.

Mithoff, of Mithoff Law in Houston, has successfully represented clients in many national cases and   lead plaintiffs’ teams in litigation against Breakstone/Firestone involving rollovers due to defective tires; representing Texas counties (and specifically Harris County) against major tobacco companies for medical costs incurred by patients at county hospitals due to smoking; and representing families of elderly victims who died in a fiery bus explosion as they were fleeing Hurricane Rita.

The Texas cases are separate from federal multi-district litigation pending before U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in the Southern District of New York, but they will be coordinated through Furman.

GM has recalled vehicles with the faulty ignition switch, including:

• Buick Lacrosse — 2005-2009
• Buick Lucerne — 2006-2011
• Buick Regal LS & GS —     2004-2005
• Cadillac Deville — 2000-2005
• Cadillac CTS — 2003-2014
• Cadillac DTS — 2004-2011
• Cadillac SRX — 2004-2006
• Camaro — 2010-2014
• Chevrolet Cobalt — 2005-2010
• Chevrolet HHR — 2006-2011
• Chevrolet Impala — 2000-2014
• Chevrolet Malibu — 1997-2005
• Chevy Monte Carlo — 2000-2008
• Daewoo G2X — 2007-2009
• Oldsmobile Alero — 1999-2004
• Oldsmobile Intrigue — 1998-2002
• Opel/Vauxhall GT — 2007-2010
• Pontiac G4 —2005-2006
• Pontiac G5 — 2007-2010
• Pontiac Grand Am — 1999-2005
• Pontiac Grand Prix — 2004-2008
• Pontiac Pursuit — 2005-2006
• Pontiac Solstice — 2006-2010
• Saturn Ion — 2003-2007
• Saturn Sky — 2007-2010

Program renamed Richard & Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program

Three attorneys with Mithoff Law have been named to U.S. News and World Report Best Lawyers in America 2015

Richard Mithoff – Best Lawyers in America 1989 – 2015

Sherie Potts Beckman – Best Lawyers in America 2011 – 2015

Joseph R. Alexander  Jr. – Best Lawyers in America 2015

Three attorneys with Mithoff Law have been named to Thomson-Reuters 2014 edition of Texas SuperLawyers.

Richard Mithoff – Texas SuperLawyers 2003 – 2014

Top Ten in Texas         2003-2007, 2008-2013

Top 100 in Texas         2003 – 2014

Top 100 in Houston     2003 – 2014

Joseph R. Alexander  Jr. – Texas SuperLawyers 2005 -2014

Janie L. Jordan – Texas SuperLawyers 2012 – 2014

Some BP investors can form a class to sue the company over allegations it misled shareholders on how much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a federal judge ruled.

Attorneys for BP investors told a federal judge that the British oil company misled the market for years on how safe its deep-water drilling operations were in the lead-up to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Texas Heart Institute drops its suit; Catholic Healthy ups deal

The Texas Heart Institute will partner with the Catholic hospital chain that bought the St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System, ending a contractual dispute tied up in a Harris County district court since May.